Thursday, October 22, 2009

liv's talking


Liv has a blog now. She's been asking me to add certain things to my blog off and on for ages. She's now decided that she'd like to have her OWN blog to put hwat she wants on it. I figure it'll be a great space for her to practice typing, spelling and punctuation with the added bonus of expressing herself and creating something that is just hers. So check out her blog. I am sure she'd be tickled pink if you left a comment occasionally....

3 comments:

Elizabeth said...

I love visiting your blog. I find it inspiring. I visit many blogs and today I visited a blog called ashleyann photography (http://ashleyannphotography.com/blog/). On her blog she talked about a woman who died suddenly last year. It made me think of you and your strength. Here is the information from the site:

Here is a brief summary from the flickr group (http://www.flickr.com/groups/aleida/) dedicated to this…it is well worth your time to read it. The below is written by Emilie Ahren:

“Many scrapbookers knew Aleida Franklin (http://ricanlaw.typepad.com/the_scrapping_rican/). She was a wonderful wife and mother and a brilliant artist. I didn’t know Aleida personally, but she taught me something I will never forget.

She emailed me last year to tell me she loved my blog and to ask if I liked my short hair-cut. This lead to a series of emails which eventually led me to remark that I really loved how often she posted pictures of herself with her children on her blog. And she replied to me, “Have you ever seen a photograph of your own mother and thought to yourself how fat she looked? Or how she wasn’t wearing make-up? Or wasn’t dressed in a glamorous outfit?” Of course my answer was no.

She then responded with saying that she made it a goal to take a picture of herself with her children at least once every month. And that to use excuses about how we look, as women, is ridiculous, since our children will never care what we looked like, but only that we had physical evidence of the bond between mother and child.

Aleida tragically and unexpectedly passed away in an auto accident in September of 2008, leaving 2 small children and a grieving husband. After she passed I thought of how those children must feel to have those precious photographs. I have made it my personal goal to follow her wise suggestion and I try to take photos of myself with my children….double chins, make-up free, bed-head and all.

I invite Mothers everywhere to take Aleida’s Challenge. To photograph yourself with your children each and every month. And to post them here so that we can see Aleida’s legacy unfolding.”

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darcie said...

Jackie! What an AWESOME idea! Hurray for Liv! My kids LOOOVE to take pictures and I sometimes blog them - but how great for Liv to have her own place to share things!

Sheila said...

That jacket is too cute on her. Perfect!